NYP – Texas: Venezuelan illegal migrant Wilmer Colmenares Gonzalez, 27, allegedly held police at bay for hours after the robbery squad followed the victim into her garage, pistol-whipped her and forced her into her home in Northwest Dallas, where they made off with the valuables inside the woman’s Gucci handbag on Sept. 21, according to cops.
Colmenares Gonzalez crossed the border illegally into Brownsville, Texas, with his wife, who is also Venezuelan, and a Chilean child in April 2023. They were was quickly released into the country with a future court date in Chicago, Homeland Security sources told The Post.
Since his arrest in the Dallas area, federal immigration authorities have labeled him as a confirmed Tren de Aragua member, per sources.
He also has a pending application for temporary protected status, which the Biden-Harris administration gives to certain Venezuelan migrants seeking to stay in the US without the threat of deportation.
Hernandez-Hernandez told cops he didn’t know his alleged accomplices, adding that the crew was instructed to collect money from a prostitute who owed the gang, according to police records reviewed by the station.
During his standoff with police, Colmenares Gonzalez allegedly barricaded himself inside a home as Dallas cops and the Irving Police Department SWAT team deployed outside, WFAA-TV News reported.
Along with Colmenares Gonzales, police arrested three other illegal migrants — Yean Brayhan Torralba, 20, Alberto Martinez Silva, 34, and Manuel Hernandez-Hernandez, 28 — who are suspected TdA gang members who were also allegedly involved in the tense 8-hour standoff with police after carrying out the violent $75,000 jewelry heist.
Cops tracked the suspects down using surveillance video from the victim’s garage and fingerprints collected at the scene, WFAA said.
Another one of the suspected gangbangers Manuel Hernandez-Hernandez, 28, was arrested just weeks before the robbery by North Richland Hills for a DWI, but was ultimately let go.
